EcoPulse

Listen to Assemblyperson Luz Rivas explain some of the details of this new California state legislation that is currently the strongest plastics reduction measure in the nation.

SB 54 requires producers to reduce the amount of covered plastic material that is coming onto the market by 25 percent by 2032, and bans existing polystyrene foodware unless it meets the stringent recycling target.  SB 54 also creates the California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund, which will generate $500 million a year for 10 years paid by plastic producers and manufacturers to fund the monitoring and mitigation of plastic pollution primarily in disadvantaged, low-income, and rural communities.  

On this episode we interview co-founder and lead strategist Ross Kenyon from the NORI Carbon Removal Marketplace.  Ross discusses how NORI is creating a marketplace to incentivize the removal of carbon from our atmosphere.  To learn more about this amazing organization and their work visit them at https://nori.com/ along with their own podcast https://nori.com/reversing-climate-change 

In this episode Planet Action Now talks with Nancy Faulstich, Executive Director of Regeneración Pájaro Valley Climate Action.  Nancy discusses how she and a small group of people started this climate change organization in their community in 2016, and what their group has accomplished since that time.  To learn more about this great organization, please visit their website at
regenerationpajarovalley.org

The purpose of this Planet Action Now episode is to give a basic understanding of what is going on with our planet in terms of global warming and climate change.  We are so very lucky and grateful to have with us on this podcast, Dr Dennis Baldocchi, professor of biometeorology, ecosystem ecology, and climate change from UC Berkeley to help us understand the basics of climate change, global warming and what it means to us